The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... regard Slavery as immoral , or crime in itself , tell us that man was not intended for civilization , but to roam the earth as a biped brute ? That he was not to raise his eyes to heaven , or be conformed in his nobler faculties to the ...
... regard Slavery as immoral , or crime in itself , tell us that man was not intended for civilization , but to roam the earth as a biped brute ? That he was not to raise his eyes to heaven , or be conformed in his nobler faculties to the ...
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... regard to the morality of many actions . If , after the most careful examination of conse- quences that we are able to make , with due 2 * % HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY . 17 good, both in the motive and the result. ...
... regard to the morality of many actions . If , after the most careful examination of conse- quences that we are able to make , with due 2 * % HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY . 17 good, both in the motive and the result. ...
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... regard it in the first . instance in reference to the present position of the slavehold- ing States , or the difficulties which lie in the way of their emancipating their slaves , but as a naked , abstract question— whether it is better ...
... regard it in the first . instance in reference to the present position of the slavehold- ing States , or the difficulties which lie in the way of their emancipating their slaves , but as a naked , abstract question— whether it is better ...
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... regard as nature's ordinary outlets of exis- tence . If we could perfectly analyze the enjoyments and suf- ferings of the most happy , and the most miserable man , we should perhaps be startled to find the difference so much 24 HARPER'S ...
... regard as nature's ordinary outlets of exis- tence . If we could perfectly analyze the enjoyments and suf- ferings of the most happy , and the most miserable man , we should perhaps be startled to find the difference so much 24 HARPER'S ...
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... regard- ed , as forming a portion of his family . It is true that the slave is driven to labor by stripes ; and if the object of punishment be to produce obedience or reforma- tion , with the least permanent injury , it is the best ...
... regard- ed , as forming a portion of his family . It is true that the slave is driven to labor by stripes ; and if the object of punishment be to produce obedience or reforma- tion , with the least permanent injury , it is the best ...
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Página 453 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Página 107 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Página 318 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Página 167 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside...
Página 16 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Página 259 - All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Página 158 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Página 55 - It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should be the very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles.
Página 453 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Página 461 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.